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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The main character of a literary work.






2. What a story or play is about.






3. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






4. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






5. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






6. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






7. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






8. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






9. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






10. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






11. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






12. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






13. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






14. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






15. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






16. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






17. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






18. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






19. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






20. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






21. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






22. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






23. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






24. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






25. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






26. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






27. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






28. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






29. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






30. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






31. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.


32. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






33. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






34. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






35. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






36. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






37. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






38. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






39. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






40. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






41. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






42. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






43. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






44. A strong pause within a line.






45. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






46. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






47. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






48. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






49. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






50. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.